Re: heads up: nss 3.59 breaks firefox add-ons

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On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 22:38 +0100, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:04 PM Alexander Ploumistos
> <alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:17 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > If you upgrade in f33 or rawhide to nss 3.59, all your firefox add-ons
> > > will stop working. Worse they will appear corrupted, so you will have to
> > > remove them and re-install them (after downgrading nss).
> > 
> > I'm running firefox 83.0-13.fc33.x86_64 with nss 3.59.0-2.fc33
> > installed since it hit my local updates-testing mirror and all my
> > add-ons are looking good.
> 
> So, I spoke too soon. I just got notified that one of my add-ons is
> misbehaving and it has been disabled. I'm still on the same session I
> was when I sent the previous message, nothing was installed or updated
> in the meantime. Is this bug time-based or something?

You didn't answer the question whether you had restarted Firefox since
installing the new nss.

Either way, probably Firefox is doing a periodic check of installed
add-ons and that fails whenever it happens now. The issue is they're
signed with SHA-1 certs, but nss is now not accepting SHA-1 per the
current system-wide policy.
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